Week11

This week in our communication class, we received back our feedbacks and grades of our Essay1. We also got back other people's feedbacks about our podcasts. My essay grade disappointed me a bit, but it's OK since I now learned the parts which did wrong and hopefully I won't repeat the same mistakes in our Essay2. The school was really taugh this past week and also during the weekend because my midterms are approaching and so as the Comm101 stuff that we have to do for EVERY next class. Tomorrow I have a sociology midterm, so I better get on studying- and OH we have an essay exam tomorrow about the Love Online text in Comm101. Hopefully these two exams will go alright tomorrow!:)

Final Drafts Due

So.. Here is the review of this past week..

This week was probably the hardest week of all the communication class so far. Our Final draft was due to wednesday; so everyone was in a hurry of fixing everything and rearranging their ideas and paragraphs because Mr. O'Regan was so strict about his rules. He told us that he will not even accept the essay if he finds an error which we forgot to fix from the feedback that he has given us.

He sometimes stresses me out:)

So, I have finished writing and editing my essay on tuesday night; and of course I had a problem printing the essay again! My parents surprised me by getting me a MacBook last week, so the whole week I was busy with trying to discover the features of the computer. But I never thought that I would have a trouble while taking a print out. Everytime I was clicking on print; it was printing only the one fourth of the page but in a bigger font. So at 1 am, I gave call to a friend and he came and helped me to figure out what was wrong...

I think I have some very good friends:)

2007's Instructions

I have written my essay, submitted it to turnitin.com, took a print out of the essay and also the instruction page. When I came to class I was feeling comfortable, because I was thinking that I have done everything that I was supposed to be doing. 

But I could never imagine the sillyness that I did the other night. Accidentally, I opened the Instruction page for 2007 and wrote my whole essay following the 2007's instructions.!!! So I used quotations in every body paragraph and even in the introduction of the essay:)

Now I'm laughing because I have fixed everything, but at the time I learned what I have done, I was absolutely terrified!

I figured out that we were supposed to do paraphrasing instead of quoting. 

So I had to change a lot from my 1st Draft.

It was hard, but at least I have learned to be more careful when I'm looking at a instruction page:)

Week 8

This week in COMM101 class we were told that our 1st Drafts were do for next week- I think the article that Mr. O'Regan has given us was a bit confusing and difficult to understand. But I'll do my best in understanding the article:)

As the time goes on the classes get harder and harder . And especially the COMM101 class!

In the essay we are supposed to somehow criticize the techniques that Tom Tyler uses in order to be convincing about the claim that he's giving. After class, I went to my dorm and looked at CH5 in the handbook and couldn't actually found what I was looking for. It talks very briefly about the convincing techniques.

Lets see how I will do on my first draft...

week 7

So here was the most stressful week of college!

I had two midterms this week : one was psychology and the other was sociology

Since I'm a psychology student, I tried to do my best in this class.

But the bad thing was= psychology midterm was on friday night and the other was in saturday morning!!!

I started to study on tuesday night for psychology. But there were 10 Chapters that I had to review and it was too much memorizing so I spent all 3 days doing my Psychology Study.

And I was bommed about Sociology because I could only study for it on Friday night after the Psych 100 exam. As you can understand I was exhausted that night. 

Psychology exam was OK but the Sociology was absolutely terrible!!

On the weekend my friends from Izmir came to visit us; so I spent the rest of the weekend showing them around and taking them to some pretty places in Istanbul.

It was a tough week but a happy weekend!

And that's the most important thing:)